No Country for Women - Humanism, Secularism, Feminism

Taslima Nasreen

Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. In India, Bangladesh and abroad, Nasreen’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir have topped the best-seller’s list.

Taslima Nasreen was born in Bangladesh. She started writing when she was 13. Her writings won the hearts of people across the border and she landed with the prestigious literary award Ananda from India in 1992. Taslima won The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 1994. She received the Kurt Tucholsky Award from Swedish PEN, the Simone de Beauvoir Award and Human Rights Award from Government of France, Le Prix de l' Edit de Nantes from the city of Nantes, France, Academy prize from the Royal Academy of arts, science and literature from Belgium. She is a Humanist Laureate in The International Academy for Humanism,USA. She won Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Free-thought Heroine award from Freedom From Religion foundation, USA., IBKA award, Germany,and Feminist Press Award, USA . She got the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh prize for Promotion of the Tolerance and Non-violence in 2005. She received the Medal of honor of Lyon. She got honorary citizenship from Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Metz, Thionville, Esch etc. Taslima was awarded the Condorcet-Aron Prize at the “Parliament of the French Community of Belgium” in Brussels and Ananda literary award again in 2000.

Bestowed with honorary doctorates from Gent University and UCL in Belgium, and American University of Paris and Paris Diderot University in France, she has addressed gatherings in major venues of the world like the European Parliament, National Assembly of France, Universities of Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, etc. She got fellowships as a research scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the USA in 2009.

Taslima has written 40 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. She has been prevented by the authorities from returning to her country since 1994, and to West Bengal since 2007.

Sexist men want women’s big breasts!

“Men who more strongly endorsed benevolently sexist attitudes toward women, who more strongly objectified women, and who were more hostile toward women idealized a large female breast size,” the researchers said.

Men who treat women as sexual objects like to see women having fair skin, long hair, curved body, large breasts, tight vagina. They inspire women to have all of the things they like and insist women to get breast implants. Women risk their lives for the satisfaction of sexist men.

What about those men who like medium breasts or small breasts, or do not care about the size of women breasts? Aren’t they sexists? Yes, they can be sexist too. It is actually very difficult to detect non-sexist men in this highly sexist world!

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do not care about the size of women breasts? Aren’t they sexists? Yes, they are

I read and agree to most of ur views as they make sense but could you plz enlighten me- how a guy is sexist if he treats women on the basis of her personality not her figure? i hope you are not killing misogyny by misandry ..

Let me just say that many will will go out of the way for big bucks on increasing their bra size. As it does help with attracting horny men it seemed to have worked against the young lady. If the boss’s religious beliefs were an issue he should have told her that before she was fired.

As a regular hetero guy I find big breasts wobbling across my line of vision to be extremely distracting. But I look at their owners face and wait to see if the person is worth interacting with. I can have a conversation with her if it’s appropriate but its hard work none the less to ignore the breasts.
I actually feel sad for women with overly big breasts, especially after I supported my wife in having breast reduction surgery. Permanent back pain was dragging her down. Her younger sister had it done too.

Men and woman are attracted to men, women, or both. And the sizes or shapes of any part of a body they find appealing is irrelevant. What is relevant is behavior appropriate to the situation. Work is for work not finding a mate. People are going to look, that is natural. But to focus on it in a work environment shows immaturity and to let it distract you from your work is stupid.

I bet they’re also less likely to want “their” wives to breastfeed if they have babies, cos the breasts are for the men, and ONLY the men, of course. Women are for looking at and having sex with, according to those types of men.

Interesting topic. I Reminding me past! I like big breasts too, so I am sexists. That’s cool. But friend of mine he likes skinny girls with small breast but he is much sexist then me because he has more girlfriends than me. Right?
Both way Men and Women are sexual objects anyway. Yes, if you look back to the third world country only women are sexual objects due to religious influences. The way men looking for having sex the same way women also looking for sex and satisfaction. The thing I don’t understand why would someone rape? Sex is both way game right? Rapping does not satisfy any of rapist or the victim.
Let share my experience. When I was teen. I was kidnapped and raped by 3 girls. funny ah! yes its true. In my dream I always wanted to make love with a girls but as a teenager it was not possible but those 3 girls were having sex with me but I did not even enjoyed and that was my first time having SEX. oh no I can’t forget that day. But now if no one kidnap me for SEX.
Now making love is so cheap and easy, so why would someone consider for rapping? Yes maybe because I am living in North America. Mostly women offer sex to a man here. Cool ah!!
I am sharing my story here because…I have some female Indian friend in India they want death penalty ( they actually want more than death penalty ) to rapist. I am against that. It is so unfortunate when people get punished just to making LOVE? We always can change this Rapping to LOVE.
I born in Bangladesh, I never see a girls top part without Dopatta. Never see a girls knee and its makes me so crazy I always wanted to see little more..little more.. LOL.
This is what happens for some who not used to see girl in sexy dress. But I have noticed over here the teenager have no interest in girls boobs or body. Because after they born they see their families comfortable dress and everywhere around him. I think this is one of the reason they have no intension to raping a girl here.
Another, reason is that, the law. I respect the Canadian laws in so many ways. This country is women oriented country. No one actually dares to do or say anything to a women because the punishment is lifetime blacklisted ( not prison ). Meaning the guy who abused a woman will never get a job, will never get a social assistance. Then how he gonna survived? Meaning they person will have no option without committing suicide. I loved this. This is should be the way. But I found a problem also, for this women’s right things, men do not dare to get married. Because in case for any reason they get divorced they the man has to take the liability of her ex wife for rest of his life. Oh no! I don’t want to get married…LOL!!

People consider raping because rape is about power and violence, not about sex. That is why elderly women are raped, prepubescent and even younger children (including males) are raped. Because they are vulnerable to power and the power fantasies of rapists.
And, no, here in Canada there are abusive men, or we wouldn’t have so many women’s shelters and battered women groups. This is a crime that can be hidden to some extent, sometimes with the unfortunate aid of the victims. Thus the term ‘Battered women syndrome’.
And again, no, men do not always get the shaft when they divorce. Amicable divorces happen, and women do not always have to get majority of a split or alimony.

Actually sex is a bless but from the beginning of history only human beings are oriented on this as if under many frantic ideas sometime not but, perhaps an advancement will go forward like and unlike like this as a law of our mind as what we are in our life and heredity.

Taslima Nasreem, you are a nutcase. All men prefer largish breasts and the physical ideals you listed. Just like all women love the idea of a man retaining the ideal physical standards. It bears nothing on the actions of most men as it is an ideal and not an expectation. Get help. You sound mentally ill.

i admit as a man I like large breasts. however, i do not see women as inferior or lesser in value than men. For me, it’s merely an aesthetic appeal. Generally, dating IS aesthetic, and to deny this is being needlessly politically correct. Yes, personality is important, however looks are of equal value. it’s no different from liking a large behind, or even small breasts. Dating is inherently about choice and discrimination (in the good sense).

I think women who made this study perhaps feel envious or jealous of more endowed women, and thus feel resentful. Maybe they need to develop better self-confidence, or realise that some people are generally seen as more physically attractive than others.

OF COURSE,I get all slobbery over every big boob babe I see!!!!!!!-I’M A DUDE!!!!!!(Exactly,a good ol’ black Canadian lad,60,with boyish good looks,a muscular build-i’m 5’9″,200-205 lb.,183/4″ biceps,though like most older chaps,I’m attempting to drop 15-20 lb.-said to resemble a handsome black cowboy stud IN AND OUT of
my Wranglers jeans and other casual/cowboy clothes!!!!)

Men and women are both attracted to it. While large breasts turn men on petite women make fun of us large breasted women. I get that a lot in bars; I got that a lot visiting the in laws. I am the bustiest of my in laws including my ex mother in law and even she told me she was glad not to be large like me. My tits, as she refered to them are the best thing she had to say about me. The rest of the in laws are glad that I’m more busty than them.Cathy